long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, crenulate, base rounded, 
rarely acute, rugulose, covered with cobwebby wool, especi- 
ally beneath, where they are snow white ; petiole one to two 
inches long, cottony. Panicle very large, with stiff erecto- 
patent branches, glandular-pubescent, as are the bracts and 
calyces. Bracts orbicular- ovate, with acuminate spinescent 
tips, membranous, ciliate, white with green borders. Flowers 
sessile, nearly two inches long. Calyx green, tubular-cam- 
panulate, ribs almost hispid; lips short, upper with three 
minute spinous teeth, lower bifid, the teeth aristate. Corolla 
white ; tube twice as long as the calyx, slender, curved, in- 
flated below the lower lip ; upper lip oblong, compressed, 
obtuse, puberulous, lower small ; lateral lobes small, re- 
curved ; mid-lobe nearly orbicular, notched. Connectives 
produced downward and ending abruptly in a broad plate. 
Nucules nearly orbicular, compressed from back to front, 
obtusely keeled in front, smooth, pale, elegantly veined — 
J.D.H. 
Fig. 1, Flower — enlarged. 
